“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.'” ― St. Anthony the Great

Monday, April 18, 2016

Slowing Down The Past

After having just watched a lot of jerky, speeded-up World War I footage, the thought occurred to me: Why not digitize the frames and create interpolated frames between the real frames? Then slow everything down and presto -- natural motion.

I assumed that early film technology moved too slowly -- that early film cameras couldn't blink fast enough to keep up with reality. Boy, was I wrong.

Old movies look jerky because there is a fundamental mismatch between older projection speeds and modern projection speeds and television. People in theaters back then actually saw movies that looked natural and not jerky.